ASUS Maximus IV Extreme B3 Revision Review

PC Mark Vantage and CineBench

With Futuremarks, soon to be superceded, PC Mark Vantage the Maximus shows there are no weak links in the chain. A very solid performer throughout.

CineBench R11.5

This definitely isn't a case of a clock speed not delivering the results you'd expect. Often we reach a point at which the reported clock keeps going higher, but the results get worse and worse. The Maximus really makes the most of our 4.8 GHz overclock, giving .4 points over a normal 2500K overclock and even beating the hyper-threaded 2600K when tested on the old Maximus.

The main reason to benchmark video performance is just in case there is some bizarre problem with the PCI-e lanes. Now and again companies add a NF200 or similar to their board, so we run the test just to make sure all is well. It also makes sure that the power-phases are fine and there aren't any bottlenecks anywhere. Plus everyone wants to know the 3D Mark scores, even if they never change.

How does it compare to the BBM? *whistles innocently*

As for the UD7, there isn't much in it tbh. But we could either have graphs that take a week to scroll through, or let you do a tiny bit of legwork. Tabbed browsing has it's benefits

Well to be honest, I have now a q9550/Maximus formula/8Gb ram/2xGTX460.

Its running fine, no probs. However mine son needs a new PC.

He`s using a Opteron 147/A8N32-Sli/4GB ram/2x7900GT.

So he`ll be getting mine and me gonna get a new one.

I was aiming at a 1366 setup, however since the revised review I am kinda in the middle.

Seeing this review and the looks of it I kinda eager to get this.

With a 2600k/16Gb dominator ram/2x560Ti Sc it will suite me fine.

But seeing Toms opion I kinda like hmmmm what to get ?

The thing is those are Tom's opinions and he is basing them on the fact he likes to tinker with his PC and adjust all the settings himself instead of letting the motherboard do it all for him. If you want a powerful PC and you are not bothered about doing all the settings and balancing this and changing that and then upping the other then there is nothing wrong with 1155. But if you do like to do all the settings and tinker with them and spend time getting them all right then you would be better off with 1366 or waiting for 2011. Personally i missed out on X58 and went strait from 775 to 1155 and never learned about how to do overclocking properly but when 2011 comes ouit i am thinking of upgrading so I can learn.

At the end of the day not everyone is interested about doing all the fiddling about and they just want a powerful PC and there is nothing wrong with that IMHO.

The thing is those are Tom's opinions, and he is basing them on the fact he likes to tinker with his PC and adjust all the settings himself instead of letting the motherboard do it all for him. If you want a powerful PC and you are not bothered about doing all the settings and balancing this and changing that and then upping the other then there is nothing wrong with 1155. But if you do like to do all the settings and tinker with them and spend time getting them all right then you would be better off with 1366 or waiting for 2011. Personally i missed out on X58 and went strait from 775 to 1155 and never learned about how to do overclocking properly but when 2011 comes ouit i am thinking of upgrading so I can learn.

At the end of the day not everyone is interested about doing all the fiddling about and they just want a powerful PC and there is nothing wrong with that IMHO.

Well I guess your right. I aint that bothered to fiddle around with settings. I do kinda known what to do but I cant be arsed tbh. All I want is a power pc which can run a game when I feel like it. And I dont want a pc which barley can manage it. I known such a board is designed for the overclocker but I am a enthusiast. I do like the state of the art hardware. I usually buy my hardware from EVGA, just mine brand I guess. But the esthatics of this board does look raher sexy and is calling my name. Anyway thanks guys for the help and advise !!

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